The Spring 2022 update of the far-right bibliography
The Radical Right bibliography has been updated. As of April 2021, it lists more than a thousand titles on radical right parties and their supporters. Click here to see what’s new.
Tag: extreme right
SCoRE and the geography of radical right resentment in Germany
The good folks at Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin have invited me for a talk about our ORA project on subnational contexts and the Radical Right in general, and some findings on the German case in particular. [su_box title="Update"]This research has become an open access journal article. Click on the DOI to read it! [bibtex file=ka.bib sort=year order=desc…
What Germany tells us about far-right politics
Over at The Atlantic, Yasmeen Serhan has an interesting article about far-right politics in Germany and its implications for the wider world, with some choice quotes from Constanze Stelzenmüller, Hans Kundnani, and yours truly.
What we are reading: Causal Effects on Mainstream Parties’ Positions
Does radical right success lead to mainstream re-positioning? Radical right parties have existed for decades now, but most of them are still seen as challengers, because they aim to disrupt the (liberal democratic) consensus in their respective societies. Existing parties can react by digging their heels in, or by accommodation. As I have argued elsewhere,…
What we are reading: Do PRR Parties Improve Representation?
Something good in everything? Could radical right-wing populism be a (whispers) good thing? Of course it all depends on what we mean by “good”. Backlund and Jungar have a modest proposal: they suggest that radical right success could improve the representation of policy preferences in parliament. Using data from both expert and voter surveys in…
Gespräch mit Journal Frankfurt über die “Gegenuni”
Das Journal Frankfurt hat mit Hajo Funke und mir über ein neurechtes Bildungsprojekt gesprochen, das sich als “Gegenuni” bezeichnet. Ein cleverer Etikettenschwindel. https://www.journal-frankfurt.de/journal_news/Gesellschaft-2/Projekt-Gegenuni-Eine-rechtsextreme-Veranstaltung-die-sich-elegant-gibt-37612.html
What we are reading: Legislative Strength, Government Participation & Protest Voting
The debate about alleged protest vote for the radical right is really, really stale. A new paper promises to bring some much-needed fresh air. My students were not really convinced. Are they just picky?
What we are reading: Gender and the Radical Right Vote
Why are women (mostly) immune to the radical right? It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a woman in possession of a good brain is rarely in want of a male-dominated, chauvinist, sexist radical right party. Or something along these lines. Austen aside, for most radical right parties in (Western) Europe, the male-to-female ratio in their…
Our research on the AfD’s changing electorate is the most cited (fresh) article in Electoral Studies
Our recent article has been cited a lot (by local standards), and the ungated pre-print is still available.
Inglehart, Maaßen, Le Pen: two links I liked & one that makes me sad
I’m sad to hear that Ronald Inglehart has died. Hero worshipping is worse than useless, and great man/woman theories are just very bad sociology of knowledge. Having said that, Inglehart had an impact on the field of comparative political sociology that is hard to overestimate. He was enormously productive, and his work is cited far…